Notki z tagiem ‘30 Day Book – Blog Challenge’

Aaaa!!! The last Challenge! Finally No, don’t get me wrong, it was a great fun, although there were days that I thought: oh my, forget this challenge, concentrate on something different, go and read a new book or write a review or seven. But altogether, I have enjoyed it very much, it was fun, and even if some of the challenges were similar to each other, they made me to think. It was absolutely not easy to choose one book for some challenges so I cheated (obviously) and chose more books. But I hope I’m forgiven:)

I think that I am going to miss this challenge, so perhaps I should think of another one…

But. Here is the last challenge:

Your Favourite Classic Book

I think it’s going to be The Wind in the Willows. It was one of my first english books and first of the many classic ones that I read in my life before I switched to chick – lit:) I still like to read this book from time to time, set in the pastoral England, with anthropomorphised animal characters, of course now I can understand it better than for … ekhm… 20 years or more.

Easy – peasy. If we take the series into consideration than I guess it is going to be Harry Potter? Or maybe I heart… series? If we want to talk about the longest book then this year the longest one was The summer Without You by Karen Swan (562 pages – my review as a part of Blog Tour will be posted on 28th May, plus there will be a giveaway, so people WATCH.THIS.SPACE), last year it was Could It Be that I’m Falling In Love by Eleanor Prescott with 551 pages, two years ago Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows with 607 pages and three year ago: The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes with 648 pages. Earlier I have no idea, I have joined Goodreads in 2011:)

All books by Sue Townsend, and especially Adrian Mole. He can always brighten my day, I always, no matter how often I have read those books, laugh out loud. This is my best mood – cheerer and I can be sure that when I feel low, Adrian will make me feel better.

Let’s make it short and straight to the point. I am BLESSED to be able to read books that I really don’t want to put down. It doesn’t happen very often that I would freely, by my own choice, put a book down. It is usually something that forces me to stop reading: baby, husband, dog, sleep etc. It is also unusual when a book doesn’t catch my interest because I am rather choosy: I only read books that I am interested in. Period:)

Oh my god! Day 26! The challenge is coming to an end! But in the meantime makes my life difficult, grrr:)

Today I am thinking hard about

A Book You Wish you Could Live In

Although, no. Not thinking hard.

Absolutely. I take Hogwarts as it is, with black magic, dragons, Forbidden Forest, teachers, students and houses. I take all the characters as they are, and all the places, especially the Burrow, Hogsmeade, The Three Broomstick with butterbeer… I take it all. I wish I could live there, really. Perhaps not in the times of Voldemort but nevertheless, wouldn’t say no to a day or two in Harry Potter’s book:)

Ginny has a better name:) And she comes from a wizard family. AND ends with Harry Potter!

But Hermione is actually always in the middle of actions, so I would say her life is a little more exciting than Ginny’s. Harry wants to protect Ginny and this is why she’s almost always the one who stays at home, while Hermione is always a command centre:) So yes, I would say, I would switch places with Hermione. do a little magic, fight Voldemort, wave my magic wand to magic me some new book shelves:)

There are some options for this challenge. For example, I feel like I know Becky Bloomwood for all my life so I can cosider her to be my best friend. I would go crazy with a friend like Becky but life wouldn’t be boring then at all.

There are too many characters I’d like to be friends with to name them. I consider a book to be good when I fell for a character, when I keep my fingers crossed for them, when I feel something, and I am really lucky that almost all of the books that I read provide such characters. But let’s concentrate only on some of my last reads.

I would be bloody happy to know Phoebe from The List by Joanna Bolouri, oh, I need some of her confidence! Or Claire Kennedy from Some Girls Do by Clodagh Murphy (note: I AM NOT sex obsessed:D ), which I loved from the word go.

I think it would be much easier to choose from the authors. Please, please, please, Lucy, Ruth, Joanna, Cathy, would you be my new BFF??? Pretty please?

Today’s challenge is almost impossible to do!!! How can I say which book is

My Favourite Book of all Time???

But. OK, you have twisted my arm:) If I had to choose, I think it’s going to be him:

Do you know him??? It’s little Nicholas by Jean – Jacques Sempe and Rene Goscinny. I have all parts of Nicholas, in polish, english and german, and the last one really tells something, as I can’t read in German! I mean, I can, but I don’t like:) The best books ever, brilliant for cheering up:)

Oh wow. You all already know that I’m a real sucker when it comes to books’ covers. That I love a sweet, charming, girly cover. I couldn’t be more happy when I get such baby in my hands, can stroke it, touch it with my fingers and just look at it and smile. Yup, that’s me all right. Very glad that today’s challenge is:

Your Favourite Book Cover

No way.

No way that there is going to be the only one)

But I think that the best covers EVER has right now Carole Matthews. They are so colourful, they totally suit the plots and really, someone very talented must have designed them. They are very eye – catching and just beautiful. And here are just some of them: